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    The House on the Strand is a 1968 novel by Daphne du Maurier. It follows Dick Young, who is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay, Dick agrees to be a test subject for a new drug Magnus has discovered. The drug transports Dick from the present day house to 14th century Cornwall, where he witnesses intrigue, adultery, and murder at the manor of Tywardreath. As Dick's time traveling increases, he grows more resentful of the modern world and longs to stay in the past.

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    The House on the Strand is a 1968 novel by Daphne du Maurier. It follows Dick Young, who is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay, Dick agrees to be a test subject for a new drug Magnus has discovered. The drug transports Dick from the present day house to 14th century Cornwall, where he witnesses intrigue, adultery, and murder at the manor of Tywardreath. As Dick's time traveling increases, he grows more resentful of the modern world and longs to stay in the past.

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    The House on the Strand is a 1968 novel by Daphne du Maurier. It follows Dick Young, who is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay, Dick agrees to be a test subject for a new drug Magnus has discovered. The drug transports Dick from the present day house to 14th century Cornwall, where he witnesses intrigue, adultery, and murder at the manor of Tywardreath. As Dick's time traveling increases, he grows more resentful of the modern world and longs to stay in the past.

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    The House on the Strand

    BOOK
    1968

    By Daphne du Maurier Translation Rights Sold


    BOOKS Felicity Blunt, +44 (0)20 7393 4254, bluntoffice@curtisbrown.co.uk Czech Motto
    TRANSLATION RIGHTS Kate Cooper, +44 020 7393 4425, katec@curtisbrown.co.uk Italian Neri Pozza Editore
    THEATRE, FILM AND TV Joe Phillips, +44 (0)20 7393 4459, joe@curtisbrown.co.uk
    THEATRE, FILM AND TV Jenn Lambert, +44 (0) 207 393 4459, jenn.lambert@curtisbrown.co.uk Romanian Orizonturi, Editura
    Russian Azbooka-Atticus
    Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he
    agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical Film Rights
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    The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th
    century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he
    witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder.

    As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the days he must spend in the
    modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before ...

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